CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

1. ``The Free Boundary Problem for the One-Dimensional Porous Medium Equation'' Texas P.D.E. Seminar, Southwest Texas State University, 1984.

2. ``Regularity and Convergence Results for a Galerkin Approximation of the One-Dimensional Porous Medium Equation'' presented at the SIAM/SPE/SEG Conference, Houston, Jan. 1985.

3. ``Galerkin Methods for Equations of Non-Fixed Type,'' Texas P.D.E. Seminar, University of Houston, 1985.

4. ``Asymptotic Behavior of a Thermoviscoplastic Material under Cyclic Loading,'' SIAM National Meeting, Pittsburgh, June 1985.

5. ``Time Dependent Behavior of a Thermoviscoplastic Uniaxial Rod,'' Tenth U.S. National Congress of Applied Mathematics, U. T. Austin, June 16-20, 1986.

6. ``A Survey of Recent Results in Inverse Coefficient Problems,'' Combined Midwest-Southeast Differential Equations Conference, Vanderbilt University, October 23-24, 1987.

7. ``Using Domain Decomposition Methods for Computing Singularities of Equations of Mixed Type,'' SIAM Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods, Houston, March 20-22, 1989. [Chaired session.]

8. ``Survey of Methods for Inverse Coefficient Problems'', AMS Summer Conference, Arcata 1989.

9. ``On the Formal Equivalence of Certain Multidimensional, Finite Data Inverse Problems,'' Texas P.D.E. Conference, TAMU, 1993.

10. Chaired Special Session on Scientific Computing, Texas Section, MAA, Annual Meeting, April 8, 1994.

11. Ko, J., Kurdila, A.J., and Pilant, M.P., "Wavelet Galerkin Multigrid Methods," presented at the 35th Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Hilton Head, South Carolina, May, 1994.

12. Ko, J., Kurdila, A.J., and Pilant, M.P., "A Class of Wavelet-based Finite Elements for Computational Mechanics," presented at the 35th Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Hilton Head, South Carolina, May, 1994.

13. M. S. Pilant, ``Multi-scale Parameter Estimation Techniques for Flow in Porous Media'', SIAM 45th Anniversary Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 17, 1997. [30 minute invited minisymposium talk]

14. M. S. Pilant, ``Identifying Parameters In Large Complex Systems, A Marriage of Mathematical Analysis and Computation,'' AAAS 73d Annual Meeting, Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division, May 22, 1997. [20 minute talk]

15. (with R. Hall, J. Epstein, Y. Hester, and R. A. Strader), ``Issues Involved in a Large Scale Implementation of Web-Based Mathematics Instruction,'' International Conference on Mathematics/Science Education and Technology 2000 Conference Proceedings, Feb 5-8, 2000. [30 minute talk]

16. (with Hall, Robert; Strader, Arlen), ``Cognitive Design of Instructional Databases,'' Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education 2001

17. ``Applied Calculus on the Web - Applets and Applications'', International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, 2001.